Our client is a Financial Technology provider playing a pivotal role in the world’s financial, energy and commodities markets. Matching buyers and sellers, they create liquidity and price discovery in these markets and provide insight and context to clients. They operate a hybrid model where brokers provide business-critical intelligence to clients. 

It’s supplemented by proprietary screens for historical data, analytics and execution functionality.  Clients include banks, insurance companies, pension and hedge funds, asset managers, energy producers and refiners as well as risk and compliance managers and charities.

Role Overview:
The Risk Product group is seeking an experienced product director oriented to Data Valuation and Risk with in-depth product knowledge. You will be joining a rapidly expanding specialized area of focused on offering premium structuring, valuation, and risk services to an institutional client base.

Familiarity in bespoke derivatives term sheets, the industry standard valuation models and “street practices” used for security valuation and portfolio risk analysis is imperative. 
 

Role Responsibilities:
Support Head of Risk Data Products with the development of solutions that address client risk, valuation and product control requirements following PS Go to Market methodology. 
Support the development and enhancement of PS Risk joint ventures and collaborations with 3rd parties
Work collaboratively with PS and Group Analytics Quantitative and Data Science functions to build best in class solutions to meet product/client specifications
Take ownership of the product expansion build: define the product and commercial strategy, write product requirements, collaborate with development and third parties involved to make the necessary developments, perform testing and describe the operational model, define and train operations to perform production tasks, support customers and salespeople with product related queries.
Work closely with other Product Proposition and Implementation specialists to support the design, development and execution of new Product ideas
Use expertise to support and enhance existing D&A product sets
Cross asset derivatives and market risk experience is essential.
Strong understanding of derivatives models including market conventions, vanilla/exotic options, and market practices regarding bespoke exotic valuation and hedging.
Ability to qualitatively and quantitatively assess pricing model output and determine adjustments where necessary
Master’s degree in a technical area (such as Math, Physics or Engineering), quantitative finance field required. PhD in mathematical finance a plus.
Working knowledge of Excel, VBA, Python. Familiarity with financial libraries ( C++) and mathematical packages such as Matlab a plus.

Our client is a fast growing Analytics provider in the ESG and Sustainable Investing sector.  They are now looking to add to their product management team in London/Europe with experience and expertise in a range of ESG data and scoring products. 

What you will be doing: 

·Understand the buy-side institutional client market, how investors are integrating ESG, climate, and sustainability

·Manage analytics and product platform, including defining deliverables and timelines, and communicating with relevant stakeholders cross-functionally including technology and sales and marketing

·Act as the voice of the client for the quant research and engineering teams

·Contribute to thought leadership through blog postings, white papers, and academic articles

What you will bring: 

·have experience in ESG or financial services, ideally launching ESG products

·have experience managing data focused SaaS Products

·have experience creating and owning a long-term product roadmap and working closely with Agile technology teams

Our client is a Global data analytics provider across pre and post trade. They are now looking for a senior Data Analytics Product Manager to join their London team, focusing on OTC data products.  

What you will be doing: 

Working with the product management and data engineering teams to facilitate product proto-typing, building out new and existing products, and speaking with clients and the market as a product specialist. 

• Work alongside Product Managers in areas such as OTC financial market data (multi asset class), Benchmarks & Indices, Risk & Regulatory Solutions as well as Trading Analytics to develop prototypes of data-driven products and solutions.
• Act as a key point of contact between the Product, Engineering and Development teams and use knowledge of underlying data, financial markets and client needs to influence technical product design and builds.
• Provide feedback to Product, Quant, and Engineering teams to help shape product strategy and execution roadmap.
• Work with quantitative analytics team to research and develop prototypes that require a deeper pricing expertise.
• Act as a data hunter and identify data sources (e.g. indicative market data as well as transactional data) from a multitude of internal and external systems.
• Act as a Product SME for advanced data science workflows and technologies for capital markets and energy and commodity use cases.

What you will bring: 

• Financial mathematics background with a practical working knowledge of how to apply standard derivative pricing theory
• Advanced programming skills in python
• Understanding of how to build and calibrate indicative pricing models for OTC derivative and cash instruments (e.g. interest rate, FX, Equity, credit derivatives and FI cash)
• Detailed knowledge of OTC derivative and cash (with a particular focus on Interest rate, FX and Energy derivatives as well as FI/Credit) products including pricing, conventions, trading, risk management and typical market data use cases
• Transform data from and derive tangible insights from JSON messages
• Ability to rebuild order books from JSON messages
• Apply standard machine learning techniques to practical problems
• Experience of writing technical requirements documentation and working within an Agile project management framework
• Write presentations and articulate concepts and ideas to non-technical colleagues and counterparts
• Entrepreneurial, self-motivated and used to working within a fast paced commercial environment

Data Product Manager, London/Paris/Switzerland 

Our client is a leader in the index and risk analytics market and is looking for a Technical Product Manager to drive their data analytics products, working on both new and existing platforms. 

What you will be doing: 

Be the evangelist for the data vision and its roadmap.
Participate in discussions with key clients regards our data strategy and access to our content.
Engage sales and other internal stakeholders to help inform the future direction of the Data Platform 
Act as the main connection point between members of our data team, data consumers and product builders.
Manage priorities in regard to projects, functional requirement and data assets.
Play an active role in defining the software development lifecycle for the data platform, using this to monitor progress against the roadmap

What you will bring

Strong communications skills are a must. The successful candidate will need to manage communication across a technical and non-technical audience
Experience in data & product cataloguing
A successful history of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets.
Experience with big data tools and running SQL/no-SQL queries
Familiarity with emerging trends in data related approaches
Hands on experience of designing data models 
Experience with Financial Markets, Financial Technology, or Risk Management 

Applied Research – Index Analytics

The Applied Research team provides thought leadership designed to drive sales across the organization. Working closely with the sales, customer service, marketing, and product development teams, we use analytics tools to provide regular weekly commentary, in-depth quarterly analysis and topical whitepapers and blogs that highlight thematic and standard indices.

As we expand the Index business through introduction of ESG, Thematic, Factor and other indices built as flagship products and on behalf of clients, the need to expand our research team has grown.

What you will be doing:

Deliver thought-leadership content and present applied-research analysis in publications (blogs and whitepapers), internal and external webinars, client meetings and media appearances.
Conduct research on Indices using risk analysis, risk and performance attribution and other analysis methods.
Assist internal teams, such as Research and Product Development, in translating complex products into digestible applications.
Assist the Sales organization in facilitating client retention and business development.
Collaborate with the Client Experience Group in responding to advanced client inquiries.

What you will bring:

At least eight years of experience with an index provider and a deep understanding of markets and index and ETF investing, with a focus on thematics
Experience working with ETF issuers, understanding their requirements.
Quantitative degree in Economics, Finance, Engineering, Physics, Math, or other relevant degree
Strong educational foundation in math/statistics, or in equity market theory and quantitative disciplines of portfolio construction/research preferred.
Understanding of various risk modelling techniques, including the use of factor models and time-series methodologies
Strong data manipulation (e.g., Excel; Python) and data visualization skills (e.g., Power BI)
Strong writing, analytical and statistical skills
Effective presentation skills and ability to distil research for broad consumption.
Demonstrated team focus and client orientation, enthusiasm for the subject matter.
Flexibility in approach and ability to work independently.

Product Manager – London
Our client is a Global trading platform and market maker in the Digital Assets sector. They provide liquidity algorithmically across most trading venues in crypto, supporting all major centralized and decentralized trading venues, AMMs, RFQs, aggregators and chains. They are now looking for a senior Product Manager to drive their OTC product offering.   

What you will be doing: 
Manage and drive growth for OTC offering across various electronic and voice trading products. 
Develop the roadmap for electronic trading products (single-dealer platform, institutional API solutions) as well as for voice trading (derivatives, tailored products, etc)  
Be responsible for all commercial aspects of the business from roadmap definition to roadmap execution, to PnL responsibility.
Work cross-functionally and cooperate closely with trading, operations, business development, and marketing.

What you will bring:

Experience in and deep knowledge of electronic trading products in financial services or crypto
Specific experience in electronic trading platforms (e.g. eFX), OTC trading and derivative instruments is a significant advantage
Specific experience in building out a crypto trading platform. 
Product management or business management experience in the financial services industry or relevant advisory firms
Degree in Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Business or equivalent experience.